Literary EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 68
... kind in his pages will be disappointed . His daring is of a different kind ; it is not the daring of adventure but of in- tensity ; his fine surprises are seized out of the very heart of his subject , and seized in a single stroke ...
... kind in his pages will be disappointed . His daring is of a different kind ; it is not the daring of adventure but of in- tensity ; his fine surprises are seized out of the very heart of his subject , and seized in a single stroke ...
Page 85
... kind of cor- rectness in literature - that which ' has its foundation in truth and in the principles of human nature . ' But Pope's so - called correctness was something very different . It consisted simply in a strict obedience to a ...
... kind of cor- rectness in literature - that which ' has its foundation in truth and in the principles of human nature . ' But Pope's so - called correctness was something very different . It consisted simply in a strict obedience to a ...
Page 134
... kind of barbarism did not stand in the way of an almost childish gaiety . In Yorkshire , we find the Inchbalds , the Siddonses , and Kemble retiring to the moors , in the intervals of business , to play blind man's buff or puss - in ...
... kind of barbarism did not stand in the way of an almost childish gaiety . In Yorkshire , we find the Inchbalds , the Siddonses , and Kemble retiring to the moors , in the intervals of business , to play blind man's buff or puss - in ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
Copyright | |
18 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Alzire beauty Beddoes Beyle Beyle's Blake Blake's blank verse Browne Browne's Byron character charming Comedy complete criticism curious Cymbeline death delight Don Gusman doubt dramatic eighteenth century elaborate Elizabethan English essay expression exquisite fact Fanny Burney feeling French genius heart Horace Walpole human humour imagination Inchbald instance Lady Betty Balfour less letters literary literature lived Lord Lytton Macaulay Macaulay's Madame Madame de Sévigné master Matthew Arnold mind Miss Molière mysterious nature never novels obvious once Othello passage passion perhaps play poems poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's prose Rabelais Racine Racine's reader remarkable romantic seems sense sentence Shakespeare Sir Thomas Browne Sophocles spirit Stendhal story strange style taste things thought tion tragedy true truth Vauvenargues vision Voltaire Walpole Walpole's whole Winter's Tale words writing written wrote Zamore